.annaholmes on the radical life and work of the children’s-book author Margaret Wise Brown, “a seductive iconoclast with a Katharine Hepburn mane and a compulsion for ignoring the rules.”
,” the two camps engaged in a decades-long standoff—often called the Fairy-Tale War. Moore believed that traditional myths and legends connected children with “higher truths,” and considered stories without morals to be a waste of time. Marcus notes that the library’s internal review of “Goodnight Moon” deemed it “unbearably sentimental.” The book didn’t appear on the shelves of city libraries until 1972—eleven years after Moore’s death, and twenty years after Brown’s.
In the late thirties, Mitchell invited Brown to become a founding member of the Bank Street Writers Lab, a group of about a dozen teacher trainees who shared “language data” and honed their writing voices. Mitchell, who recognized that Brown had a love of trial and error, much like she did, called her “a kind of scientist.
Brown at her cottage in Vinalhaven, Maine, in 1952. The Only House, as she called it, had some of the uncanny touches of her picture books, including a door on the second floor which opened to the outside—even though there was no balcony.Brown continued auditioning many other drafts. Studying the opinions and physical responses that her stories elicited made her feel like a literary detective; she called the exercise chasing “leads.
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